Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-10-06
REAL ESTATE.
The Combination Land co.
SPECIAL NO. 4.


hearts.
They neglected their business, they gave
themselves airs,
Read the poets in Greek, suppeu tnelf
wine, took their rest, 49,
Never troubling their beautiful heads with
affairs,
And as for their morals-the least said the
best.
The scandal grew greater and greater and
then
An appeal to the people was formally made,
The old gods were displaced by the suffrage
And popular government formed in their
stead"
But time rolls around, and Athena and Juno
And Daphne and Hebe and Flora ana
Crete,
And a dozen or more Heathen women whom
you know,
Each finds work at LEUcADIA, naming a
street.
The Tyre that in Hades once twanged for
Eurydice
Now praises LEucADIA, Queen of our Coast,
And the Tyre tells the truth when 1t says
ne'er before did see
A place where the truth seems lie ana a
boast
Where else is spot where the fig and the
pumpkin
wifi grow side by side without water or
And each visitor feel as If he were some kin
To God when he breathes the electrical
air?
If man has hundred or two hundred
handy, -
. He will buy a lot there, not day will he
wait,
For LEUcADIA the lovely, the darling, the
Is the brightest and neatest young town in
the StAte.
For climate, for health, for beauty or bust
LEUCADiA we praise in Hexameters slow.
Let our readers with spi its elated to dizzi-
Attend at the auction and bid with bow.
There are hundreds of thousands of acres
of land in Los Angeles San Bernardino and
San Diego counties, suitable for orchards and
vineyards.
But there is only one seaside, and only one
LEUcADIA. There are hundreds of thousands
of acres now dry and uncultivated, which
can by labor be changed into garden or
chards.
But there is only one strip of land which
fronts the sea, only one fundamental chord
upon which the surges of ocean sound their
mighty diapason, only one place where Dame
Nature wears her skirt of translucent beryl
embroidered with foamy lace. And nowhere
is this music-room and picture gallery of the
Deity SO attractive as at LEUCADIA.
Capital can construct reservoirs and fumes
and railroads; it can make distant acres ac
cessible, and cause arid acres to undulate
with verdure.
But the wealth of Jay Gould could not
bring the iodined healing breath OF ocean to
the bedside of the invalid in the hot valley,
or add one yard to the present limited supply
of ocean beach.
We say limited-go to the map and look!
All the seaside north of Santa Barbara may
be eliminated from the list of available
ocean-side property. The Japanese ocean
current-the "Gulf Stream" of the Pacific,
in its southwark journey from Arctic waters
hugs the shore closely from the Straits of
Fuca to Point Conception. The result is
cold Waterloo cold for comfortable bath
ing. Monterey, for instance, is in the lati-
tude of Savannah; Georgia, but nine people
out of ten who visit Monterey bathe in the
big tanks where the water is warmed by arti
fetal heat and do not bathe in the ocean
As for Santa Cruz, there is a couplet written
by some SnlVerlnS pressure seeker, on tne
walls of a bath-h there, which couplet ac-
curately expresses the situation.
"Santa Cruz water is like Scotch snuff,
One dip and you've got enough"
At Point Concepcion-just above Santa
Barbara-the cold, ocean current continues
southward in a direct course, while the
Coast line defects eastwardly at sharp
angle, and in few miles the water, under
the genial suns of this latitude, becomes
warm enough to make bathing i'll any month
of the ar real pleasure instead of "a
painful duty reluctantly performed" as
Fugitive Slave Law, and as Brigham Young
remarked when he married his eighteenth
wife,
From Santa Barbara south to Point Vicente,
there is but little coast that is available for
seaside resorts. The beach is too steep for
driving, and the surf consequently too heavy
to make bathing either pleasant or safe,
while the bluff along the beach is several
hundred feet in height, and cut up with
arroyOs, SO as to make the ocean practically
inaccessible to all except Alpine tourists and
crows
From Point Vicente to San Pedro there are
probably twenty or thirty miles of available
beach, along which are the towns of Santa
Monica, BallOna. Long Beach, etc.
Below San Pedro there are only mud flats
and iagoons, until San Juan by the sea il
reached. Leaving San Juan, there is nc
ground available fol. seaside resort until
Oceanside reached. At 0ceanside, the direct
road from Los Angeles to San Diego, now in
process of construction, will connect with
the California Southern Railroad from Col
ton to San Diego: Oceanside lots are held al
good figures, fifteen hundred dollars for 8
lot on the Ocean avenue and five hundred
dollars for residence lots mile and more
from the beach. South of Oceanside is the
Aqua Hedionda. 1t has several miles of fint
seaside, but the owner is able to keep it, he
| will not sell at any Dripe and if Won annoy
him with an attempt to talk about selling, h,
will make the interview as brief as may bt
consistent with courtesy. Then comes Carls
| bad, and it is a beautiful location, and ther,
will be a large town there, and prices of lot
are already away up, as they ought to be
From Carlsbad south there are lagOOns, sane
dunes and broken ground until you reacl
the mouth of the San Marcos. From the SaI
Marcos south to Encenitas is the prettiest sit,
in the world for an ocean city, and on this sit,
| is ''Leucadia"-the subject of our sketch,
| lies in the lap of Paradise. She is the faires
of all the fair daughters of the sea. She is tn,
The beach Is hard and level. You can driv,
along it for twelve miles. For bathing ther,
is no need of lines, for the surf is SO light /
would not upset a baby, and there being n,
stingrays From the edge of the bluff over
hanging the beach the ground slopes gentl.
| up to the top of the first ridge. then 1t dc
| scends gently t., a valley, through which tn
| railroad runs, then there is a gradual ascen
to the top of the second ridge mile or ~
away.
The amazing thing about Leucadia, and il
which 1t differs from every other seaside IL
California. is in the wonderful fertility o
its soil. The valley and hill slopes are GOV
cred with Fig, Apricot, Eucalyptus ant
other trees, and they are green with vine
yards and corn fie ds.
Leucadia is in process of preparation TO
the market. Streets and avenues have beer
Il nj dad uto nd In
Greek deities and personages. A drinking
fountain and bath house are being erectet
at a white sulphur well on Hygeria avenue
Bath houses on the beach and steps ant
grades thereto have been constructed. 4
railroad station, after the model OF the Pan
theon, has been built, and dining-rOon
which is conducted by a skilful cook. Al
underground stream of water has beel
struck which will be raised by cyclone mill
| to a reservoir on the summit of high hill
from which pipes are now being laid through
| the avenues.
| TWO HUNDRED LOTS WILL BE OFFER
ED AT AUCTION ON WEDNESDAY, OC